On Friday, February 11, 2011 08:14:54 pm John R Pierce wrote:

> On 02/11/11 5:12 PM, Robert Heller wrote:

> > OTOH, for mere backup using rsync and ssh might work even better and be

> > somewhat simplier.

>

> except that provides no point in time restoration ability.

>

> I prefer backup schemes that use dump/restore to do occasional full and

> regular incremental backups, and for these, NFS is quite useful.

Not quite as simple as a dump restore, but duplicity works beatifully for point in time backups...

Peter.

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